Paul Newman Quotes
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If you have no enemies, you have no character. Taking a stand always creates opposition.
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Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one.
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I am convinced that a person is entitled to as much privacy as he wants. It should be his privilege to keep certain areas of his life out of the newspapers.
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I certainly never expected to be a professional actor. I never expected to be in movies. I thought I would probably become a teacher.
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Choose between yesterday and tomorrow.
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It's been a privilege to be here.
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You say somebody’s guilty, everybody believes you. You say they’re innocent, nobody cares.
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I cannot bear to look at a film that I made before 1990. Maybe 1985. There's no sense even trying to explain it. I really just can't watch myself. I see all the machinery at work and it just drives me nuts, so I don't look at anything.
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If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.
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I never ask my wife about my flaws. Instead I try to get her to ignore them and concentrate on my sense of humor.
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I will continue to get behind the wheel of a racing car as long as I am able. But that could all end tomorrow.
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A dollar won is twice as sweet as a dollar earned.
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Make sure you live life, which means don't do things where you court celebrity, and give something positive back to our society.
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I have taken roads that I wished I had not traveled on. And I'm traveling on some pretty exciting ones, too.
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A lot of people have dreams and never do anything about them. When you have ideas and dreams, you do something about it.
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Husbands and wives should have separate interests, cultivate different sets of friends and not impose on the other... You can't spend a lifetime breathing down each other's necks... We are very, very different people and yet somehow we fed off those varied differences and instead of separating us, it has made the whole bond a lot stronger.
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No sense in being a grifter if it's the same as being a citizen.
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Natural law. Sons are put on this earth to trouble their fathers.
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It seems to me that the older I get, the more running around I do with less satisfaction, just spinning my wheels.
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The need is great and so are the opportunities to make a difference.
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From the very beginning, we bucked tradition. When the experts said that something was "always done" in a certain way, we'd do it our way, which was sometimes the very opposite.
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The Alexander Technique helped a long-standing back problem and to get a good night's sleep after many years of tossing and turning.
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I'm like a good cheese. I'm just getting mouldy enough to be interesting.
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Watching something is nothing like doing it.